Hi GEP-eders, I forwarded the information provided by Jonas Schoenefeld (thank you!) to my faculty-climate email list at Brandeis, over which there has been some discussion—also sometimes a bit contentious—of flying’s carbon impact. I noted that there had been a fairly debate on gep-ed over flying, and received back an interesting response from one individual that I thought worth sharing:
> A few months back I tried to organize a climate finance panel at an > anthropology conference, but we were unable to get enough participants > because of people's concern about flying more than their carbon quota for > that year. > > To register for the conference you had to be there in person, so increased > climate consciousness on the part of my colleagues resulted in less climate > change research being represented at the main anthropology conference in > North America. I submit this not as an advocate for flying, but as someone who flies all the time for non-academic reasons, feels guilty about it, can’t figure out a way to stop, and so is unavoidably receptive to justifications for it…. Happy summer <https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/fireworks-are-americas-favorite-face-exploding-dog-torturing-bird-murdering-way-to-celebrate-its-birthday/2019/06/30/ddba3a62-98dd-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?utm_term=.8485d7affbd4> everyone, Charlie Chester ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GEP-guide.net <http://gep-guide.net/> • BCI <http://batcon.org/> • Y2Y <http://y2y.net/> • Brandeis <http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/environmental/> • Fletcher <https://sites.tufts.edu/cierp/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/34480E60-88AA-4BFC-B8C8-DD7393A5A1DD%40gmail.com.
